{"id":10434,"date":"2017-01-19T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T08:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=10434"},"modified":"2017-01-19T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T08:13:37","slug":"how-kure-bola-ahmed-tunubu-and-i-frustrated-for-president-obansojos-third-term-ambition-orji-kalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/how-kure-bola-ahmed-tunubu-and-i-frustrated-for-president-obansojos-third-term-ambition-orji-kalu\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kure, Bola Ahmed Tunubu and I frustrated for President Obansojo’s Third Term Ambition—Orji Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olabode Adaramola<\/p>\n

Former Abia state governor, Orji\u00a0 Uzor Kalu has said that the late former governor of Niger state, late Engineer Abdullahi Kure would be remembered for the role he\u00a0 played in ensuring that the third term ambition of former President Olusegun Obasanjo did not come into fruition.<\/p>\n

“It was Engineer Abdulkadir\u00a0 Kure, my humble self and Senator Bola Ahmed\u00a0 Tinubu that stood our ground then that third term agenda must not be allowed to\u00a0 succeed. We went through hell in the hands of the state security service (SSS) and the Nigeria Police Force.<\/p>\n

The former Abia state governor who spoke in Minna on Wednesday\u00a0 shortly after paying a condolence visit to the family of late former governor Abdullahi Abdulkadir\u00a0 Kure at their GRA, Minna residence\u00a0 pointed out that that singular role ensured the survival of democracy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

“Without that fight against third term, there wouldn’t have been President Goodluck Jonathan,nor President Mohammadu Buhari today. Kure was our arrow head in killing third term and he will be fondly\u00a0 remembered for that role that we all played.<\/p>\n

“But I paid dearly for that fight against third term, they ensured that they grounded\u00a0 all my businesses, including Slok airline and Hallmark Bank in fighting for the survival of democracy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

“We were prevented from holding our meeting in every places we went, at a point they even sealed off the Niger state governor’s lodge at Abuja after which\u00a0 we took it to Abia state governor’s lodge in Abuja”, he recalled.<\/p>\n

He said that many Nigerians did not know what happened during the struggle against\u00a0 third term, stressing that “people continue to deny that there was nothing like third term but I can tell you categorically that there was serious plan for third term, money exchanged hands and we fought them”.<\/p>\n

Speaking further on the unity of the country,\u00a0Kalu said that no country had ever fought two civil war and survived\u00a0 it and therefore warned that there must be peace at whatever cost in Nigeria.<\/p>

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He described as very unfortunate,\u00a0 the recent\u00a0 killings in southern Kaduna, stressing that Nigerians should not be killing one another\u00a0 ‘because we are one Nigeria’.<\/p>\n

He said that the activities of Movement For the Actualization of Biafra People MASSOB) does not in anyway posed any significant\u00a0 threat to the unity of the country, saying\u00a0 that “the IPOB or MASSOB are harmless group, they are different\u00a0 from the dreaded\u00a0 Boko Haram terrorists , so we will continue to\u00a0 appeal to Nigerians because there must be peace and unity in this country. Like what is happening in Southern part of Kaduna state is not right and acceptable, people should stop killing their fellow Nigerians, we should manage rumours very well.<\/p>\n

“We are Nigerians and we will remain in Nigeria because Nigeria is our place, we have no other place to go\u00a0and there\u00a0 \u00a0 is no basis to compare the activities of Boko Haram insurgents with those of the Biafran agitators in MASSOB\u00a0 and IPOB, even as he warned that Nigeria cannot afford to engage in a second civil war.<\/p>\n

According to Kalu, Boko Haram is by far deadlier than the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), saying, “none of these agitators for Biafra state\u00a0 carry arms, they are not violent”<\/p>\n

Kalu stated this at the residence of former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida as part of his condolence visit to the family of the late Engineer Abdulkhadir Kure, former governor of Niger state.<\/p>\n

“Those agitating for Biafra do not constitute threat to the unity of Nigeria ” but warned that no country survives two civil wars<\/p>\n

“MASSOB\u00a0 are not carrying arms, the Bioko haram\u00a0 sect are more dangerous. We will continue to warn you people to live in peace. Like what is going on now in Southern Kaduna is not right, people should stop killing their fellow Nigerians.<\/p>\n

“Politicians should manage rumours very well and stop dishing out rumours i n social media to impress anybody. We are Nigerians and we will continue to be Nigerians and Nigeria is our home. We have no other country to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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